Cleveland Museum of Art
Mount Vesuvius at Midnight
Albert BierstadtLinkedCulture matchlcp-2b1ec23c6bf3
- Date
- 1868
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 127224
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
For centuries, artists and tourists have been attracted to Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near Naples. While living in London in 1868, Albert Bierstadt heard that the volcano was active once again, and rushed immediately to Italy. It is not certain that he actually saw an eruption, although the resultant painting presents a convincing image of spewing lava and ash. This painting is a smaller version of a much larger canvas that is now lost.
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- Credit line
- Gift of S. Livingstone Mather, Philip Richard Mather, Katherine Hoyt (Mather) Cross, Katherine Mather McLean and Constance Mather Bishop
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